The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-12-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

Oyster Juice Is what Paris doctors
now prescribe for patients whose stom-
achs are too weak to hold any other
kind of food.
Able to bear her bereavcmenr. =
Delia--"How is Mrs. Grenadinc iatelyP
Is she perfectly reconcilcd to the loss
Of her husbandp" Belle--Ycs. I think
40. Her mourning fits beautifully. =
Loveu Citizen
--Omaha Man--.How ritlicuious this
faith cure craze is!' Noted physician
"Well, | don't know about that. I've
seen good many people cured by
faith" "Eho Faith in tho Lordp''
"No. Faith in me. - Omaha World.
--Fogg ut the dinner table is OBJ
served looking sadly at the infinitesimal
portion of chicken that has been dealt
out to him. Suddenly q CLEAN OF
pleasure comes over his face. and he
exclaims, ''Nevcr mind, in heaven
shall have two wings every day"
The government o. New South
Wales offers reward of $125.000 to
any person who will make known and
demonstrate at his own expense any
method or process not previously
known in the colony for the effectual
extermination of rabbits.
"A North Carolinian, recently re-
turned from Japan, says that in a few
years the Japanese will be the greatest
railroad builders in the world. He
bases his judgment on the fact that the
Japanese are great patrons of railroads.
Even when they have no hisiness to
transact. they ride back and forth on
the cars, until their money Is gone.
even the beggars. in the las &c towns
spending their money in this curious
way.
Idaho newspapers are calling at
tention to the fact that the Lemhi In
dians are slaughtering deer by whole
sale, just for their hides. They form .
circle covering miles Of country, and
drive the deer toward common GEN.
ter, generally deep ravine, and 40
their work so thoroughly that almost
every animal started within the outer
circle is killed. The authorities are
asked to put a stop to this slaughter
AT the Nashville race-course the
other day u man stood near book
making stand undecided how to bet his
money. While he was trying to make
up his mind as to what to do red
headed girl suddenly passed by him.
He saw her, wheeled around. bet his
money on the only gray horse in the
race and lost it. This is not the usual
way of ending such stories. but the
truth must be told once in while.
Prof. Bolton expresses the opinion
that the browning glory Of modern
chemistry is the power of producing.
in the laboratory. from inorganic mat
ter, substances identical with those eX-
isting in the vegetable and, animal
kingdoms-it being known now that
the same chemical laws rule animate
and inanimate nature, and that any
definite compound produced in tho
former can be prepared by synthesis AS
soon as its chemical constitution has
been made out.
In San Francisco there are four
journals regularly published in Chinese
characters. These appear weekly, and
have circulation of $500 copies. Ac-
cording to the Chinese method good
printer can print four hundred sheets
a day. Five days work are required
to get out any edition of one thousand
copies. The journals are printed with
ink upon single sheets of: white paper,
except OH the Chinese New Year, when
the printing is done with red ink or
upon red paper.
| Experts say that curtains and fine
| laces can be made of malleabie iron
and steel. At the Centennial Exhibi-
ton piece of steel rolled by mill in
Pittsburgh was so thin that it weighed
less than book leaf, and could be
blown off the hand easier than paper
| the same size. The sheets for steel lace
will be rolled down to q low gague and
the patterns pressed into them. The
lace can be made light or heavy, and
is is suitable for ladies' and children's
underwear, perhaps for trimming hats,
wraps and dresses.
81 see that old Rumblossom fell off
the ferry boat last night half mile
from shore and got to land all right.
How did that happen? He can't swim
stroke.'' "No; but when he fell in he
got mouthful of the stuff. and he
tasted it and knew it was water; it dis
gusted him so that he got right up and
walked along the bottom of tho river
till he reached shore. He says you
couldn't have kept him in that stuff
five minutes if you had tied anchors to
both feet. "-Burdette.
Toilet articles should now be
made of silver to be fashionable. The
pincushiOn is set in silver. with
enameled, repoussc, or etched designs.
Sometimes it is set with rough pearls;
sometimes it is of antique silver, or
silver with raised work in gold. 1t has
an upholstered satin top, and it opens
like a box, acting. in fact. in the
double capacity Of pincushion and
jewel-casc. 1t costs from $l2 to, $75
All combs, brushes, and hand-mirrors
are set in silver now. All one's mani
cure sets and cologne bottles and toilet
makoups and mysteries Of all Lescrip-
ton go in silver cases.
American gentlemen are making a
speciality of importing English birds
for sporting PURPOSES. During the mast